Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu Author:Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Donald Keene (Translator) Introduction -- — The love suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki shinjū) -- — The battles of Coxinga (Kokusenʼya kassen) -- — The uprooted pine (Nebiki no kadomatsu) -- — The love suicides at Amijima (Shinjū ten no Amijima) -- — Appendix I: A note on prostitution in Chikamatsu's plays -- — Appendix II: Contemporary puppet performances of... more » Chikamatsu's plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today, and he is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition contains four of his most important plays including three popular domestic dramas and one history play.« less